Happy New Year!

***I’m keeping this for myself, as a record of what the list used to look like, but I am no longer updating this page***

Good bye and good riddance to 2010. The last real blog post I wrote here was in June, and it was a bit of a pity-fest. And naturally, the summer only got worse from there. After a bad allergic reaction, a hospital visit, mild hallucinations, and the death of my wonderful puppy Fudge, school started, and it was much more work-intensive than I’d hoped, I was behind from the start, I went for a couple of interviews for Alternative Spring Break and a job as a field assistant for next summer and didn’t get either, dropped a course, and had to get an exam deferred due to OCD/my own stupidity. And what is a blog for if not a place for self-indulgent whining?

But some time around the first week of December, I started feeling a bit better. Perhaps it was actually being on medication, the new dosage, or the fact that depression may wax and wane, but I remembered what it felt like to want to do things, to be able to envision getting things done, to feel motivation and contentedness.

Begin world traveling (the following are places I have always desperately wanted to go and exotic things I’ve always wanted to do; there’s no way I’ll make it to all of them in 3 years, but I’m keeping them on the list anyway)